Fan Tutorial

PSP 8, X and X2

I did retire this tutorial, as it was one that only worked in psp7
(and possibly 8), but people have asked about it, so I've decided to
reinstate it. I've also rewritten it for later versions of PSP

*NOTE*
Sometimes the links for filters change, it's difficult (and a lot of work) to
keep changing them on individual pages, so I have created a page with
links to filters and programs that I have used in my tutorials.
That way it is easier for me, because when there are changes I will
only have one page to update and hopefully better for you, because I'm
less likely to miss a page out when doing the updates :)

You will find links to filters/programs used in this tutorial
Here
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Filters and programs used in this tutorial :-
Paint Shop Pro
Dragonfly's Sinedots II
Unplugged filters
Harry's filters
SuperBladePro

Materials :-
My sg_folds.cfg and SBP preset Here

some images have been made smaller to shorten file size

Step 1.
Open a new image 100 x 200 transparent
Flood fill with white and add a new layer
Go to Effects...Pluggins...Sinedots...
open the sg_folds.cfg choose the folds setting

Some presets use different 'blend' settings and it is
important for this tutorial to make sure that the blend
in the sinedots setting is set to 'screen' like this:-

Step 2.
Go to Image...Canvas size...tick the
centre horizontal and vertical boxes and
change the size of the canvas to 450 x 350
Make the bottom layer active and flood fill
with white, then make the sinedot layer active.
Go to Effects...Geometric Effects...
Vertical Perspective=100

Step 3.
Go to Layers...Duplicate... then go to
Image..Rotate...make sure that the 'all layers'
box is not ticked and rotate 15° Right
Go to Effects...Sharpen ...and sharpen
with the Mover tool move into position so that it
slightly overlaps the previous sinedot, the curved
yellow patterns at the bottom should look like this

Make the layer with the original sinedot (layer2) active
Repeat the duplication and rotation of the sinedot,
until there are 7 sections in all, increasing the
rotation by 15 each time (eg 1st=15, 2nd=30, 3rd=45)
overlap the sections in the same way as the first.
The fan should now look like this

Step 4.
Make the first sinedot layer(layer 2) active again
and repeat the same process on the other side, but
change the direction of the rotation to Left.
You will also need to move each new duplicate layer
on this side below the previous one either by going to
Layers...Arrange...Move Down...or opening the layers
palette and dragging them down.

I only added 4 on this side making 11 sections in all
the layers palette should look like this

this is the screenshot of my fan

Step 5.
Make the copy of layer 2 just above layer 1 active
Effects...Unplugged...Colours...Black Shimmer...

add drop shadow to the section using the following
settings as an alternative instead of applying the
drop shadow to the sections seperately, you could
just do one drop shadow to the whole fan after the
layers have been merged, but I preferred the result
when I did the sections seperately.

this is my screenshot

Step 6.
on the next section (which is on the next layer) go to
Effects...UnPlugged...Colours...Blacklight...

use drop shadow on this section using same settings

Repeat the UnPlugged...Colours...and drop shadow
in steps 5 and 6 on each section of the fan,
alternating the colour.
This is my screenshot

Step 7.
Turn off the visibility of the background
layer by opening the layers palette and
clicking the glasses. Go to
Layers...Merge...and merge visible.
Turn the background back on.
use the Mover Tool to re-position fan at
the top of the image to make room for the
cord underneath it. Add a new layer.

To make an edge for the sides of the fan use
the Draw Tool type= single line, size= 8
the colour isn't important as I'm going to
cover it with eye candy, but if you used
Blade Pro instead, or just inner bevel it,
the colour you choose will affect the result.
this was how mine looked

Effects...Plugins...Eye Candy...
Chrome...Copper...I used the default settings
then go to Effects...3D...Inner Bevel...
I used the 'Round' preset, which is one of psp's own
on the inner bevel dialogue screen it is listed under
presets, at the top of the screen

Apply the same drop shadow used for the fan sections,
add a new layer and repeat on the other side of the fan

Step 8.
Add a new layer. To make the cord,
use the Draw tool width=4 and type=freehand
set backround on palette to null,I used red for
the foreground, draw a line similar to this

I have applied Super Blade Pro using my goldglow preset
which is available for download at the top of the page.
I then added a drop shadow using the same settings
that were used previously

add a new layer draw another chord, and apply
the same goldglow preset and drop shadow

Step 9.
If you want to change the background, make that
the active layer. Flood fill with any colour or
pattern that you want I used a linear gradient,
repeats=0, angle=37, foreground colour=black
background colour=#FFDDDD
Merge all layers and finish with a frame.
This is how I made mine
Make the background colour of the palette white
Go to Image...Add borders...add a symetrical border
of 8. Select this border with the magic wand and
apply SuperBladePro Rococo Cracquelure, (this is
one of Flaming Pears own presets).
De-select.

Change the palette background colour to black.
Add a symetrical border of 12, then change the
palette colour back to white, add another border
of 6 and repeat the selection and application
of SuperBladePro.
De-select, then resize if you want to.

You can get many variations by changing the
colours or using a different sinedot setting
In the example below I used Harry's Filters instead
of UnPlugged to colour the sections of the fan

in this example I used the pink_fold preset included in
the .cfg and coloured it with 'Super Blade Pro's
ultraviolet and magentastone

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